I have taken a look at my maillog and strangely enough, I do get a report that the delivery proceeded without any problems. Yet I never get the email... BUT if I try sending an email directly to the Hotmail address using pine (sending it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of root@ for example), the message gets there OK (the maillog for both methods are identical, though). I guess it might be a Hotmail problem or something. I will try to open an webmail account with another provider to see if I get the same behavior. Thanks anyway! -Cleo > Have you tried prefixing the email address with & to make sure qmail knows > it's an email address to forward to? > > Can you post logs of what happens when you try emailing root@? > > __________________ > Chris Bolt > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.bolt.cx > > -----Original Message----- > From: Cleo Macy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 8:33 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: .qmail alias file with an underscore in the entry... > > > Hi, > > I've looked in the qmail FAQ but have not found an answer to my > question. I hope someone out there can help me. > > I have tried creating an alias for the root user on my FreeBSD system, > but have noticed that if I put an email address with an underscore in > it, such as "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", in the /var/qmail/alias/.qmail- > root file, the mail never gets forwarded to that address. But the > forwarding seems to works fine with any other address that doesn't > contain an underscore. > > Is this a limitation of the qmail alias mechanism? If so, is there a > workaround? If not, what am I doing wrong? > > Thanks! > -Cleo > > >
